Invoke isn't working for a function with yield?

[SirMacJefferson]

(JavaScript) Here are two sections of code in one script attached to a cube (the ‘player’):

    public function ReleaseGun()
    {
    	 print("Started release");
    	 weaponry.WieldedWeapon.CurrentlyReleasing = true;
    	 yield WaitForSeconds(weaponry.WieldedWeapon.ReleaseTime);
    	 if (weaponry.WieldedWeapon.CurrentlyReleasing == true)
    	 {
    		 weaponry.WieldedWeapon.currentFiresLeft = weaponry.WieldedWeapon.ReleaseCapacity;
    		 weaponry.WieldedWeapon.CurrentlyReleasing = false;
    		 print("Release successful");
    	 }
    }

    if (Input.GetKeyDown("r") && weaponry.WieldedWeapon.CurrentlyReleasing == false)
    {
        Invoke("ReleaseGun",0);
    }

The if is in Update() (sorry for the sloppy code example, I don’t want to try to get the code format to work with two separate pieces…it hates me).
I tried Invoke with ReleaseGun just printing something. It worked and printed immediately after hitting R. I tried Invoke with everything but the “yield” in ReleaseGun. It worked, but instantly instead of WaitForSeconds working. When I add yield before WaitForSeconds, nothing happens at all. The first print isn’t printed and no variables are set.

By the way, weaponry is a variable based off of a class called Weaponry. WieldedWeapon is also set to a class called Weapon, which has various weapon-related stats, including ReleaseTime, a float. The ReleaseTime of the specific weapon I was using is 3, and I printed that to verify it.

When I just regularly call the function via “ReleaseGun()”, it works perfectly, but I want to invoke it so I can CancelInvoke in the middle if you change your weapon (this is like a reload system in an MOFPS).

Why does the ‘yield’ seem to destroy the function…?

[aldonaletto]

Invoke is internally implemented as a coroutine, like ReleaseGun (yield transforms the whole function in a coroutine), but this shouldn’t be a problem, since coroutines can start other coroutines.

Could it be possible to transfer part of the code to Update, removing the yield instruction from ReleaseGun?

    if (Input.GetKeyDown("r") && weaponry.WieldedWeapon.CurrentlyReleasing == false)
    {
    	weaponry.WieldedWeapon.CurrentlyReleasing = true;
        Invoke("ReleaseGun",weaponry.WieldedWeapon.ReleaseTime);
    }

You still could cancel invoke while the release time wasn’t ended.

[Eric5h5]

You can’t use yield with Invoke. I’d recommend not using Update, and instead doing everything as a coroutine. Instead of WaitForSeconds, make a function that is similar to how WaitForSeconds works but can be interrupted.